Substitute Quotes
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For many things we can find substitutes, but there is not now, nor will there ever be, a substitute for creative thought.
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The “brightness” of the 15 percent might or might not indicate a profound feeling for the causes of things; it is largely verbal and symbol-manipulating, and is almost certainly partly an obsessional device not to know and touch risky matter, just as Freud long ago pointed out that the nagging questions of small children are a substitute for asking the forbidden questions.
paul goodman— p. 85 (Growing Up Absurd (1956))
Still not satisfied that a qualified prince had been born to the dynasty, Satyavati prevailed upon her son to try a third time. It was again the turn of the first princess, but she aghast at the prospect of another encounter with Vyasa, sent to him as her substitute, a servant woman. Vyasa and this servant woman both substitutes, conceived Vidura, who became the wise counselor to the Kaurava court, said to be incarnation of the god Dharma.
Bruce M. Sullivan— Seer of the Fifth Veda: Krsna Dvaipayana Vyasa in the Mahabharata (p. 58)
Notes: When Aono, Yurito's sister, attempted to kill Matsuri with a katana, Yurito stood in the path of her blade. Yurito is slain and his illusionary form (he was a fake substitute created by Aono through Yaka powers) dissolved back into a sea of papers.
— Source: Play On! (a little-known dramedy play)
— Notes: The "character" is a fictious villain in the play posing as a scientist, who killed a archeologist named Sir Percival, for a necklace known mostly as the Darjeeling Diamond. But when a friend of one of the "characters", Steven Sellers, tips him off, Stanley Grimes is exposed as the murderer. When the police arrives as he holds the people inside the mansion he is in hostage, Grimes starts to have convulsions due to the diamond's curse and dies. Due to there being problems with during the progress on rehersals (then the play itself) with the dialougue, the death is made even more hilarious with the lines being flubbed, especially near the end of the play, when the "characters" exclaim the curse is from the three different names of the diamond and the "character" Lord Dudley shouts "All of them!" to try to get the play moving along. (Please note that when the word character was in quotation marks, I mean the roles the actual characters, which are the actors, and not the figures like Stanley Grimes or Steven Sellers, played).
War alone can carry to the maximum tension all human energies and imprint with the seal of nobility those people who have the courage to confront it; every other test is a mere substitute.
— c.1930 Quoted in Denis Mack-Smith Mussolini's Roman Empire (1976), p.47.
When you confuse art with propaganda, you confuse an act of God with something which can be turned on and off like the hot water faucet. If "God" means nothing to you (or less than nothing) I'll cheerfully substitute one of your own favorite words, "freedom". You confuse freedom the only freedom with absolute tyranny… all over this so called world, hundreds of millions of servile and insolent inhuman unbeings are busily unrolling in the enlightenment of propaganda.
e. e. cummings— Essay in the anthology The War Poets (1945) edited by Oscar Williams
DeMaistre and Bonald … wanted to teach men submission, to give them the religion of established power, to substitute, in Bonald’s phrase, “the evidence of authority for the authority of evidence.”
alain finkielkraut— p. 22 (The Undoing of Thought (1988))
And give to the orphans their property, and substitute not worthless (things) for (their) good (ones), and devour not their property (adding) to your own property. This is surely a great sin.
— 2 Maulana Muhammad Ali translation
Thankfully, persistence is a great substitute for talent.
steve martin— Born Standing Up: A Comic's Life
Justice is not to be taken by storm. She is to be wooed by slow advances. substitute statute for decision, and you shift the center of authority, but add no quota of inspired wisdom.
benjamin n. cardozo— Lecture at Yale University Law School (1923) as quoted in The American Journal of International Law Vol. 29 (1935), p. 32.
The assaying of tea is an art and not a science. It is the man, and not his instruments, which is the most important.There can be no substitute for myexperience and intuited knowledge.
Timothy Mo— 1986 An Insular Possession, ch.4.
Prophecy, however honest, is generally a poor substitute for experience.
benjamin n. cardozo— West Ohio Gas Co. v. Public Utilities Commission (No.2), 294 U.S. 79, 82, (1935).
There is no substitute for a militant freedom. The only alternative is submission and slavery.
calvin coolidge— The Price of Freedom: Speeches and Addresses, Coolidge, The Minerva Group (2001), p. 159
— Acceptance of the Memorial to General Ulysses S. Grant (27 April 1922)
Manner is all in all, whate'er is writ,The substitute for genius, sense, and wit.
william cowper— Line 542.
Facts and not merely opinions are what we want. Emotionalism is not a substitute for the truth.
joseph lewis— The Philosophy of Atheism
I think the one lesson I have learned is that there is no substitute for paying attention.
diane sawyer— Attributed to Diane Sawyer in: Ellen Sue Stern (1993) I Do: Meditations for Brides. p. 9
The stock exchange is a poor substitute for the Holy Grail.
joseph schumpeter— Capitalism, Socialism and Democracy (Third Edition), Part II, Chapter XII, Section II, pg.137.
Men substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.
edwin howard armstrong— As quoted in "Edwin Armstrong : Pioneer of the Airwaves" by Yannis TsividisUnsourced variant: Men like to substitute words for reality and then argue about the words.
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
augustine of hippo— As quoted in Majority of One (1957) by Sydney J. Harris, p. 283.
In every rebellion is to be found the metaphysical demand for unity, the impossibility of capturing it, and the construction of a substitute universe.
Albert Camus— Part 4: Rebellion and Art
“Charity is false, futile, and poisonous when offered as a substitute for justice.”
henry george— "How to Help the Unemployed," The North American Review, 1894
Courage is the highest quality for a soldier, but technology is a fine substitute.
david mitchell— Part 6 (number9dream (2001))
Feminism was always wrong to pretend that women could “have it all.” It is not male society but mother nature who lays the heaviest burden on woman. No husband or day care can adequately substitute for a mother’s attention. My feminist heroes are the boldly independent and childless Amelia Earhart and Katherine Hepburn, who has been outspoken in her opposition to the delusion of “having it all.”
camille paglia— p. 89 (Sex, Art and American Culture : New Essays (1992))
I loved Molly. Or at least I told myself I did. Or, if what I felt for her was not love, it was at least a plausible imitation, a convincing substitute.
robert charles wilson— p. 248 (Spin (2005))
Voting is easy and marginally useful, but it is a poor substitute for democracy, which requires direct action by concerned citizens.
howard zinn— "Election Madness" The Progressive (March 2008)
Israel , as the Jewish state, must disappear from the map. The so called peace-path is not peace and it is not a substitute for jihad and resistance.
— Ahmed Yassin, in Daniel Byman A High Price: The Triumphs and Failures of Israeli Counterterrorism, Oxford University Press, 15 June 2011, p.170
Christ said "Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself" and when asked "who is thy neighbour? went on to the parable of the Good Samaritan. If you wish to understand this parable as it was understood by his hearers, you should substitute "Germans and Japanese" for Samaritan. I fear my modern day Christians would resent such a substitution, because it would compel them to realize how far they have departed from the teachings of the founder of their religion.
bertrand russell— Bertrand Russell, Unpopular Essays (1950), Ch. 9: Ideas That Have Helped Mankind
They err , that through indulgence to others, or fondness to any sin in themselves, substitute for repentance anything less.
— Hammond in: Samuel Johnson A Dictionary of the English Language:, Longman, Hurst, Rees, and Orme, 1805
Charity is no substitute for justice withheld.
— As quoted in Majority of One (1957) by Sydney J. Harris, p. 283.
There is no substitute for hard work.
Thomas Edison— American inventor
